Bug#425415: apt: apt-get source is too quiet when verifying files

[Michael Vogt <mvogt@acm.org>]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:01:23PM +0200, Pietro Giorgianni wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1
> Severity: wishlist

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
> apt-get source packagename tells the user step by step what it is doing,
> except when verifying the files.
> 
> so,  if  something goes  wrong  during  verification  (for instance,  if
> there's a lockfile some killed process),  all the user knows is that the
> files where downloaded and apt-get is holding still.
> 
> being a bit more verbous would  allow the user to understand what apt is
> doing and, in case of problems, how to fix them.

Can you please give me a example of such a behaviour and how it is
reproducable? It should print to stderr what URIs failed and what the
exact error message when apt-get source fails. If it does not do that,
I would be interessted in more details :)

Thanks,
 Michael